A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

Chapter 121

"Is there anything about you that's worth trusting?" Zelda's voice was sharp, like the edge of a knife. "Callie, do you remember all the trouble you've caused over these years?" Zelda continued, her eyes blazing with anger. "How many times have you tried to hurt Lisette, and you think we don't know?" "When you were ten, you pushed Lisette into the pool at your birthday party. She nearly drowned, remember?"

"Then, when you were twelve, you shoved her down the stairs, and she broke her leg. Ring a bell?" "And when you turned fifteen, you orchestrated her kidnapping, and worse... You conveniently forgot that, didn't you?"

Zelda's accusations hung in the air like a thick fog.

Calliope stood stoically, the memories swirling back like a relentless tide.

She said quietly, "what if I told you that when I was ten, Lisette pushed me first? We both ended up in the water, but you saved her while I had to crawl out alone.

At twelve, she shoved me, and I just reacted.

And at fifteen..."

lived and relived countless times. Each incident, each betrayal orchestrated by Lisette,

had staged her own kidnapping. She had turned Calliope into the villain,

scapegoat for her own

machinations. While Calliope's\

lay in

the sympathy of everyone around

nobody knew Lisette had hired the real kidnappers or that Calliope had narrowly

her

need, when

had rushed to console

been the victim, yet she became the

isn't it enough?" Zelda snapped, breaking the silence. "Do you think we don't know

to pin it on Lisette, but she would

hear her